Music-rack and light-supporting attachment for stools or chairs.



No. 675,!86. I Patented May 28, mm.

c. H. BACON. I MUSIC BACK AND LIGHT SUPPORTING KT T ACHME'NT F'OR STHOLS OB CHAIRS} (Application filed Sept. 11, 1900.)

(No Model.)

w MU a 7 a m W/ TNE SSE S A TTOHNE YS' (UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES HENRY BACON, OF DANIELSON, CONNECTICUT.

MUSIC-RACK AND LIGHT-SUPPORTING ATTACHMENT FOR STOOLS 0R CHAIRS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.67 5,186, dated May 28, 1901. Application filed september 11, 1900- Serial No. 29,668. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

- Be it known that 1, CHARLES HENRYBAooN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Danielson, in the county of Windham and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Music-Rack and Light-Supporting Attachment for Stools or Chairs, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

One purpose of the invention is to provide a means for adj ustably securing a music-rack and a support for a lantern or lamp to a stool or chair, thus accommodating each musician or bandman with a support for music and means for illuminating the music, which rack and support for the lantern or lamp may be adjusted to or from the stool or chair.

Another purpose of the invention is to so construct the attachment that it may be neatly folded, forming a compactv parcel with the stool or chair.- I

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved device applied to a stool, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the stool folded and the device folded upon the'stool.

A represents a camp-stool of that character which may be folded compactly, and longitudinally opposite legs of'the said stool'areprovided with loops or staples 10, through which loops or staples a horizontal bar 11. is passed and is adapted to freely move. These loops or staples 1O arepreferably placed on the legs near their pivot-points, as illustrated in Fig. l, and the bar 11, which forms the base of the attachment, is provided with two offset or angular extremities, 12 and'13. A standard 14 is connected with the offset extremity 12 of the said horizontal or base bar 11, being connected therewith by a thumb-screw 15 and bolt or its equivalent, and at the opposite end of the standard 14 a socket 16 is formed, through which socket the supporting-rod 17 of a music-rack 18 is passed, and this rod is adjusted in the said socket and is held in adjusted position by any form of set-screws 19 or the equivalent thereof. end of the base-bar 11 of the device a second standard 20 is attached to the said base-bar by means of a bolt and a thumb-nut 20% and at the opposite end of this second standard 20 a socket 21 is formed, through which a rod 22 is adj ustably passed, the upper end of the rod being provided with a'hook 23, or the upper end of said rod may be formed in any other manner enabling said upper portion of the rod to support and hold the bail of a lantern or similar illuminating article. The rod 22, adapted to support a lantern or the like, is held in adjusted position by means of a setscrew 24, which is located at the socket 21.

Thus it will be observed that the music-rack is at one side of the camp-stool and the light is at the opposite side, and by giving end movement to the base-bar 11 either the light or the music-rack may be brought nearer to or carried farther from the stool at the pleasure of the occupant. \Vhile I have shown and described the said attachment as applied to a folding camp-stool, I desire it to be understood that the application of the attachment may be made with equally good results to a chair, bench, or the like.

It is obvious thatwhen the camp-stool A, for example, is folded the music-rack may be lowered upon its support 14 and that the standard or support 14, with the rack attached, may be folded parallel with the base-bar 11 and that after the lantern or lamp is removed from the support 22, carried by the standard 20, this latter standard may be folded parallel with the base-bar 11 and the opposing standard 14, as is shown in Fig. 2, thus rendering the seat and the attachment capable of being made into a compact parcel and one that may be readily carried from place to place. It is also evident that the attachment may be conveniently and expeditiously set up and that the rack and the lantern may be shifted at the convenience of the musician or the person occupying the stool.

Various changes in the form, proportions, and minor details of my invention may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope thereof-as, for instance, I may in practice omit the angular terminals of the base-bar '11 and make said bar straight throughout. Hence I do not limit myself to the exact cou- At the opposite Y struction of said bar as shown and described, but consider myself entitled to all such variations as may lie within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. An attachment for chairs or stools, comprising a bar adapted to be secured to a chair or stool with its ends projecting beyond the same, standards pivotally and adjustably secured to the ends of the said bar, a musicrack adjustably connected with one standard, and means for supporting a lantern or other illuminating device carried by the other standard, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. An attachment for chairs or stools, comprising a base-bar adapted to be supported by the chair or stool, standards pivotally connected with the end portions of the bar, means for holding the standardsin vertical positions, and rods adjustably carried by the said standards, for the purpose specified.

3. An attachment for stools or chairs, comprising a base-bar adapted to be supported by the legs of said chair or stool, standards pivotally and adjnstably secured to the end portions of the said bar, rods adjustably carried by the said standards, and a music-rack connected with one of the said rods, the other rod being shaped at its upper end in a manner to support the bail of a lantern or similar device, as specified.

4. An attachment for chairs or stools, conof a bar slidably mounted on the chair orstool and having its ends projecting beyond the same, and standards having their lower ends adjustably secured to the projecting ends of the bar, one standard being adapted to support a rack and the other a lantern, substantially as described.

6. The combination with a folding stool provided with loops or staples on its legs, of a bar fitting loosely in the loops or staples and having its ends projecting beyond the ends of the stool, and standards having their lower ends pivotally and adjustably secured to the ends of the said bar,one standard being adapted to support a music-rack and the other a lantern, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CHARLES HENRY BACON.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR G. BILL, GEORGE B. GUILD. 

